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By Sankar Ray The spectre of Anastas Mikoyan, the renowned leader of Soviet era did haunt the incredible round of negotiations at the President Hotel in Moscow on 5 and 6 February on modalities of withdrawal of foreign (not just American) troops. Participants in the consultations included representatives from...
By Sushil Kutty It all boils down to Narendra Modi – the man, the Prime Minister, the Chaiwala. From Rahul Gandhi to Chandrababu Naidu to Arvind Kejriwal and Farooq Abdullah, everybody is making the mistake of publicly shaming Modi, forgetting that the man soaks in the humiliation and feeds...
By Pradeep Kapoor LUCKNOW: Impressive road show of Priyanka Gandhi Vadra, Rahul Gandhi and Jyotiraditya Scindia in Lucknow has unnerved SP-BSP alliance. Massive participation of people from all castes and religions at the road show has forced to Samajwadi Party and BSP to revise their strategy to contest 2019...
By Kalyani Shankar Priyanka Gandhi Vadra has taken charge as the Congress General Secretary responsible for Eastern Uttar Pradesh last week. The state is not new to her as she has campaigned earlier also in some parts apart from looking after her mother Sonia Gandhi’s constituency Rae Bareilly and...
By Amulya Ganguli Once an acolyte of the Congress party’s enfant terrible, Sanjay Gandhi, the new Madhya Pradesh chief minister, Kamal Nath, has had a chequered, if fairly successful, career. His latest achievement has been to deftly traverse the minefield of his party’s internal feuds in the state to...
By Indira Jaising From the eye-popping report published in The Hindu, it is now clear that the PMO was, in fact, in “parallel negotiations” with the French government over the Rafale deal, and that Defence Ministry officials had raised strong objections to this, saying that it had “weakened the...
Investment In New Projects Is Slowing Down By Nantoo Banerjee Despite higher economic growth, the slowdown in industrial investment in the last five years is a major concern. New projects are fewer. While the government is busy selling its stake in the country’s most reliable public sector enterprises, the...
By IPA Special Correspondent CHANDIGARH: Giving a major fillip to its efforts to check stubble burning and boost the renewable energy sector, the Punjab Government led by Chief Minister Captain Amarinder Singh on Monday signed a Memorandum of Understanding with Virgo Corporation for a Rs 630 crore Biofuel project,...
By John Wojcik Is it possible that the president of the United States could be involved in a scandal that includes threats by a notorious tabloid to release salacious photos of Jeff Bezos, founder and CEO of Amazon and owner of The Washington Post? A question like that would...
By LS Herdenia BHOPAL: Rahul Gandhi’s stern warning to the Chief Minister and Ministers to perform otherwise they will be replaced, declaration by Kamal Nath and Scindia that “Rahul Gandhi is the next Prime Minister of the Country”, and veteran BJP leader Ram Krishna Kusumaria embracing the Congress were...